I disagree that this was the seed

Great story. Yet it is mostly told by those who only witnessed this one episode. I believe that Roth is right, that the seed was planted much earlier. The brothers probably rolled their eyes at him since the days of Mammoth.

As an editor for Circus magazine, I interviewed both camps probably a dozen times each on this subject. Roth said they were always mismatched. He liked roller-skating and rock climbing at 6 a.m., they liked sleeping until 4 p.m. Eddie never denied that.

Also, Roth drank and wanted to make love to the world, they drank and got paranoid. AndRoth even admitted he thought that anti-Semitism probably had “something” to do with it, even though they were never obvious about it.

But, of course, Roth’s also wrong. Because keeping his ego in check, tuning out yes-men like Angelus and realizing the truly bigger greatness he was only a part of — realizing that other people in that band even EXISTED — might have held it together much longer.